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Partnership Readies Regulatory Compliance Service For October US Launch
With their partnership begun in January, Scandinavian based compliance solutions company TM Group, and UK-based archiving provider Arkivum, have put their capabilities together for an end-to-end solution that can collect customer data for regulatory compliance, communicate it within units of a firm, and, lastly, save and store the data, according to officials of both companies….
The Time to Implement Innovative Technology for Electronic Execution is Now
Technology innovation is side-lining low latency in the drive to optimise performance and reduce complexity and cost of electronic execution infrastructure – but which technologies are finding favour and what can they deliver? Join the discussion at this week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City to find out about technology innovation for…
Going Big, Not Going Home
As operational applications in the financial services industry — mirroring their cousins in general business apps and consumer services apps — continue to get smaller and sleeker, Chicago-based electronic trading technologies provider Trading Technologies (TT) is taking the opposite tack. Since December, TT has gradually rolled out its new service TT Desktop, which offers complex…
MiFID II Review Shows Slow Progress and Ongoing Reporting Challenges
With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just six months away, we called on some industry experts to share their views on how implementation is going, the toughest challenges of the regulation, and which workflows need to be prioritised to hit the 3 January 2018 deadline date. Among the…
Metamako, MayStreet Take Steps For Time-Stamped Order Ledger
FPGA networking platform provider Metamako has added market access and data analytics provider MayStreet’s services to its network, which will make it possible to develop a time-stamped order ledger, according to Ciaran Kennedy, head of US operations at Metamako. “MayStreet’s ability to decode market orders, extract our time stamp and combine the two, would allow…
NovaSparks Gets Last Missing US Market Data Feed
Field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data services provider NovaSparks has completed its array of supported feeds with the addition of the Securities Information Processors (SIP) feed, according to Olivier Baetz, chief operating officer of the company. NovaSparks now supports direct feeds for all 12 US equity protected markets — the SIP feed was the…
xCelor, CIARA Pair Servers and Market Data Feeds
Low-latency trading solutions provider xCelor has partnered with high-frequency trading technology server company CIARA to integrate xCelor market data feed handlers with CIARA Orion HFT servers. The partnership and the integrated technologies, which are live in production, provide low-latency trading to user firms so that they need not spend resources on IT engineering to achieve…
‘Tick To Trade’ Emerges As Latency Solution
The latency solution developed jointly by Solarflare and LDA Technologies has delivered a lower latency by figuring out how to push packets of information through their system faster and more directly, explains Ahmet Houssein, vice president of marketing at Solarflare. Using the “tick-to-trade” method of picking up packets sent through a user datagram protocol (UDP),…
Recorded Webinar: Voice recording for communications surveillance under MIFID II/MAR
To date, the industry’s regulatory compliance focus for upcoming European MiFID II and Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) has been on issues including the structure of trading facilities, systematic internalisation, governance, best execution and time-stamping. MiFID II and MAR also contain provisions, however, increasing the requirements for recording and archiving voice communication related to securities trading….
Buy-Side Automation Of Trade Orders Rises
Metori Capital Management’s selection of QuantHouse’s QuantFACTORY algorithmic trading development framework represents the beginning of buy-side firms automating trade order execution based on a portfolio manager’s conceived strategy, according to Stephane Leroy, business co-founder and chief revenue officer of QuantHouse. While sell-side firms have already had automated trade execution based on pre-set strategies in place…